83% favor Trump plan to end social security taxation: WSJ poll

Eighty-three percent of registered voters strongly or somewhat support former President Donald Trump's proposal to end taxes on social security benefits, a Wall Street Journal poll found.

The proposal would help seniors struggling on a fixed income amid inflation, The Wall Street Journal reported. The Tax Policy Center said the policy would provide an average benefit of $3,400 per senior.

Sixty-four percent of participants "strongly favored" ending social security benefit taxes. Another 19% "somewhat" favored the policy. Only 10% of participants opposed the proposal.

The proposal to end social security benefit taxes had strong bipartisan support. Seventy-six percent of Democrats and 89% of Republicans supported the proposal.

The WSJ poll sampled 750 registered voters from Aug. 24 to 28 with a margin of error of ± 3.6%.